Unit DirectorDebbie Bradshaw, MSc, DPhil (Oxon)
She trained as a biostatistician and developed expertise in epidemiology and demography during her career as a researcher. Her main research interests are mortality profiles and health transition.

Jané Joubert, BA, BA Hons, MA; BA Hons (Demography), MA (Demography). Specialist Scientist Within burden of disease assessment, Jané’s main research interests is mortality analysis, with a focus on the quality of mortality and cause-of-death data, and descriptive epidemiology of major local disease, injury and risk factors for disease. Her peripheral research interests include demographic ageing and burden of disease in older persons.

Richard Matzopoulos, BBusSci, MPhil (Epidemiology), PhD (Public Health) Specialist Scientist
Richard Matzopoulos is a Specialist Scientist at the Medical Research Council’s Burden of Disease Research Unit and an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Cape Town’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine, and its Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, where he co-ordinates its Violence and Injury Research programme.

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Richard’s research centres on measuring the health and social burden of violence and injury, and evaluating interventions and policies that target upstream determinants. He is currently principal investigator on two competitive grants awarded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre and the UK’s Department for International Development to evaluate the impact of alcohol policy and urban upgrading on violence reduction in selected low-income communities in South Africa. He advises the Provincial Government of the Western Cape on its interpersonal violence and injury prevention and surveillance activities through its Burden of Disease Reduction Project and chairs its transversal Injury Prevention Working Group. He is one of two South African focal points for the international Violence Prevention Alliance.

Beatrice Nojilana, Dip in Clinical Medicine, MPH
Senior Scientist Her interests are Burden of disease, with a particular interest in cause of death certification and epidemiology of non-communicable diseases, approaches to the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases including policy interventions in terms of legislation, regulation and fiscal measures as well as monitoring and evaluation of these policies.

Megan Prinsloo, MPH (Epidemiology)Senior Scientist She is currently registered for a PhD in Public Health. Her interests are urban-rural differences for homicide in South Africa; and to estimate Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) lost due to violence.

Ian Neethling, MSc. (Physiological Sciences)Senior ScientistHe is currently registered for a PhD in Public Health. His interests are in mortality surveillance and the use of burden of disease information for health care decision making.

Edward Nicol, MA (Demography and Population Studies), PhD (Community Health) Senior Scientist His current interests include monitoring and evaluation of maternal and child health programmes; and evaluation of Health Information Systems, with a special focus on improving data quality and information use